** Description changed: - Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: - - GNOME Applications under Wayland - GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can run a GTK+ application under Wayland simply by: - - GDK_BACKEND=wayland gnome-calculator - Applications that use Clutter or clutter-gtk also need the Clutter Wayland backend enabled: - - GDK_BACKEND=wayland CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland cheese - - https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/Applications - - ======> so hope the settings are well set at compile time; maybe a - rebuilt to get sure all apps are ok. - + ***************************** + Main upstream discussion & fixes example to deal with wayland: + https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437 + ***************************** ******************************************************************************************************************************************** Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Ubuntu 17.10 2. Install backintime-qt4 or gparted application from above list (full may be acquired from https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=pkexec+filetype%3Adesktop+path%3A*%2Fapplications%2F*&perpkg=1&page=4 ) 3a. Try to launch backintime-qt4 from shortcut "Back In Time (root)" (located in /usr/share/applications/backintime-qt4-root.desktop, it uses pkexec ($ cat /usr/share/applications/backintime-qt4-root.desktop | grep Exec Exec=pkexec backintime-qt4) 3b. Try to launch Gparted from shortcut "GParted" (located in /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop, it uses gparted-pkexec) 4a.1. Back In Time does not start from GUI. 4a.2. Back In Time shows error message in console: 4b. gparted-pkexec does not start, reports error $ gparted-pkexec Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null. No protocol specified (gpartedbin:12831): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount. $ pkexec backintime-qt4 Back In Time Version: 1.1.12 Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details. No protocol specified app.py: cannot connect to X server :0 Expected results: * backintime-qt4 may be run as root Actual results: * unable to run backintime-qt4 as root Workaround: * setting "xhost +si:localuser:root" helps. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: backintime-qt4 1.1.12-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sun Aug 27 14:23:14 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-26 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha i386 (20170826) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: backintime UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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